Mes Bach - Little Acorns Child Care

Main activities are pre school nursery, after school club and holiday club. Also a weekly informal toddler group (Toddler group currently suspended since covid).

In the charity's own words, from the register.

In Wales

• Ceredigion

Area of benefit in its governing document: Not Defined

The places the charity told the Commission it works in.

In the year ending 31 March 2025, it had income of £1,570 and spent £6,305.

Figures as the charity reported them to the Charity Commission. Staff and volunteer numbers are only asked of charities with income over £10,000. A year with no row was not reported.

Separate measures from the charity's own returns and accounts, each with its year. Read them together: no single measure says how well a charity is run.

Income over time

Down 99%, from £108,773 in the year to 31 March 2021 to £1,570 in the year to 31 March 2025.

Spending against income

It spent 402% of its income in the year to 31 March 2025. It spent more than its income in 5 of the 5 years shown.

Money from government

37% of its income in the year to 31 March 2022 came from government grants and contracts (£34,145).

Largest funder

Ceredigion County Council gave £36,917 in the year to 31 March 2022, 40% of that year's income.Read by AI from the charity's accounts.

From the annual returns the charity filed with the Charity Commission. The largest funder comes from its accounts, read by AI.

Government grants in the year ending 31 March 2024: Not reported. Government contracts: £19,272 from 2 contracts.

From the charity's annual return to the Charity Commission, which asks every charity with income over £10,000 how much came from government grants and contracts. It does not say which part of government. These totals are separate from the named funders read from its accounts and the grants published on 360Giving, and are not added to them.

In its accounts for the year ending 31 March 2022, the charity named 3 funders who gave £36,917 between them. £36,917 of that came from public bodies.

These figures were read from the accounts the charity filed with the Charity Commission by Claude, an AI model, in OpenEconomy's accounts reader. AI can misread a table, so check the accounts on the register before relying on a figure.

Only funding the accounts name with an amount is included. Most charities also have income from donations, fees and trading that is not listed by funder, so this is part of its income.

Funders that publish to 360Giving list 3 grants to this charity since 2010, worth at least £14,085.

Only funders that publish their grants to 360Giving are included, and many do not. These are amounts funders awarded, which can differ from what the charity received in a given year, so they are shown apart from the accounts figures above.

1 trustee runs the charity.

• Mark LongmanAppointed 6 August 2012

Trustees are responsible in law for the charity. Names are as they appear on the public register.

Of the last 5 annual returns that were due, 3 arrived by the deadline.

Charities with income over £10,000 send an annual return within 10 months of their year end, and those over £25,000 also send their accounts. Smaller charities only update their income and spending on the register. The dates are when the Commission received each document.

Charity number

1025440

Status

Registered

Registered with the Commission

27 August 1993

Governing document

CONSTITUTION ADOPTED 09/06/1993AS AMENDED ON 14/02/2006AS AMENDED ON 11/05/2011AS AMENDED ON 12/06/2015

Council area of its contact address

Ceredigion

• Register details, income, spending, trustees and filing dates: Charity Commission for England and Wales, register of charities. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.
• Funding from accounts: the charity's filed accounts, read by OpenEconomy's AI accounts reader on 2 November 2026.
• Grants awarded: 360Giving open grants data, from funders that publish there. Loaded by OpenEconomy on 2 November 2026.

• This charity on the Charity Commission register
• Its accounts and annual returns on the register
• 360Giving open grants data
• This charity on OpenEconomy

• OpenCouncil: Ceredigion Council's meetings and decisions
• OpenEconomy: Ceredigion's economy in figures
• OpenSenedd: the Members of the Senedd for Ceredigion Penfro